Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
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In Context
2Behold, I have made you small amongst the nations. You are greatly despised.
Cross References
Genesis 36:8Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:12The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
Proverbs 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honour is humility.
Isaiah 10:14My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Isaiah 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Isaiah 47:7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
Matthew Henry on Obadiah 1:2-10
The Doom of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord , and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt… Read the whole commentary →